How can I send email to lapsed users?
I have set up a private news forum with access limited just to our customers. There is no public access and all users are created by me with invitation emails with username and password going out via Drupal's standard email function.
About half of those that were set up have not yet visited the site. Therefore, I want to send a reminder email just to those users who have "never" accessed the site and I also want to include their username and password from the User file.
I know that I can do a workaround where I change the greeting email template in settings/users, then delete and re-create each and every user, then change the email template back to normal.
What I really need, though, is a means to create ad hoc messages that I can send to groups of users based on any variable that I choose: last access = never, last access
reminders
I've successfully used Advanced User module (http://drupal.org/project/advuser) on Qatar Living and it was sending approx 30 e-mails per day without a hitch. You can configure the length of time before sending the mail (say a user has not logged in for 2 weeks, one month, etc)
You could also try http://drupal.org/project/account_reminder but I have never played with it before.
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Qatar Living - Life in Qatar
Still some issues...
Thanks for the 2 ideas. I am actually checking out the Advanced User module right now and find that it doesn't accept coding like %username or %password in the message body. So, unless I did something wrong (could happen !), it isn't going to accomplish everything that I need to do.
I will look into the account reminder module.
Inactive User
I found that Inactive User is a good one.
Very Good!
Thank you both for your suggestions. Actually, both modules are great for different reasons. Maybe some enterprising soul can put these together into one, as they are very similar. Account Reminder allows you to target just the "never's" and Inactive User for inactive. The Advanced User module may do both, but I couldn't figure out how to get the filter to do anything other than "Never" and the email output didn't support the %username and %password strings. so..... thanks again.